Little Red Riding Hood

• Read the story and act out with props , masks and costumes—

• Character profile—what is LRRH like?

• Wanted posters—where is that wolf?

• Story maps, journeys and other maps

• Disguises—what could we use to dis-guise ourselves?

• Stranger Danger

• Colour mixing and apple printing

Areas of Learning in the EYFS

• Communication and Language • Personal, Social and Emotional Development • Physical Development • Literacy • Mathematics • Expressive arts and Design • Understanding the World

Sessions over the week cover all o‰ these areas o‰

learning.

The Gingerbread Man

• Read the story and act out using props, masks and costumes

• Decorate and eat gingerbread people!

• Design Gingerbread men with moving parts and decorate them

• Investigations—how long would the ginger-bread man have lasted in the water? How quickly do things dissolve?

• Time challenges

• Typing captions for the story

Goldilocks and the three bears

• Size comparisons—big, middle and small, largest/smallest

• Exploring textures

• Character profile—what is Goldilocks like?

• Alternative versions—was Goldilocks a bit naughty?

• Writing letters to the bears

The Three Little Pigs

• Materials and textures

• Exploring tools and techniques

• Houses and construction

• Shapes

• Rhyming words

• Matchstick houses

• Farm animals

• Different versions of the story

PE PE will continue to take place on Tues-days. We will use the wheeled vehicles and other equipment during Physical Friday sessions too. In PE lessons, we will be do-ing Dance.

Do you have a favourite story? We will be reading lots of fairytales and traditional tales and focus on few. We will also listen to The Three Billy Goats gruff, Hansel and

Gretel, Rapunzel, Cinderella, Snow White and more!

Maths As we look at different stories, there will plenty of opportunities to develop our maths skills. We will be getting to grips with addition and subtraction problems in a range of contexts and make sure we can count, write and use numbers beyond 10. Each week, we will also be having a different

problem solving focus, which will mean using all of our maths skills as well as deciding how best to tackle a problem.

We will be starting our new Traditional Tales topic next week and have lots of exciting learning planned. In the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) we plan our teaching alongside the children’s interests. If the class is really interested and engaged in a particular topic or an activity

spurs them on to want to find out more, we try and adapt our teaching and what we are doing to match their enthusiasm. Although these are some possible activities, please be aware that we may not cover them all, and may go off in another direction at some point!

PHONICS (Letters and Sounds)

We have now learnt all of the sounds of the alphabet and

have moved on to learning some digraphs. A digraph is a pair

of letters that make one sound eg. ch in chip, sh in ship, oa in boat.

We will be developing our skills of sounding out (or segmenting) as

well as blending sounds together to read words. We will learn new

tricky words too, and these will be sent home for your child to practise

reading and writing them. We praise independent writing at school and have an Indepdnent Writing Wall as well as a Writer of the Week. If

your child does any writing at home, please let us know by popping a

photo on their Tapestry Learning Journey.

Chinese New Year This festival begins on 5th February and lasts for days. We will be spending week learning about the traditions and customs of this celebrations as well as life in China and how it is similar/different to how we live our lives. We will hear about the sto-ry behind the Chinese Zodiac and find out what animal’s year we were born in. We will have a go at using chop sticks, write some words and numbers using Chinese symbols, make a dragon to take part in a dragon parade around the school with, play some money games and make fans, Chinese drums, Chinese lanterns and more...all in the space of a week!